Jewishness is full of paradoxes. For example, remarked Nahum Goldmann, founder and longtime president of the World Jewish Congress: “Even today it is hardly possible to say whether to be a Jew consists first of belonging to a people or practicing a religion, or the two together” (The Jewish Paradox, 1976)[1]. The answer has always depended on the circumstances. Another paradox is the relationship of Jewishness to both tribalism and universalism: Israelis, “the most separatist people in the world,” in Goldmann’s words again, “have the great weakness of thinking that the whole world revolves around them.”[2]

This great weakness is, of course, a great strength, and so is the ambiguity of Jewishness. It has served Israel—a secular “Jewish state”— very well. Theodor Herzl thought of Zionism on the model of European nationalistic movements, lobbying for the right of the Jews to become a nation among nations. But everyone can see now that Israel is no ordinary nation. It never was and never will be. It is the paradoxical nation.

Part of the ambiguity comes from the very name Israel, which already had a twofold meaning before 1948: it referred to an ancient kingdom supposedly founded in the first millennium BCE, and destroyed by the Romans in the first century CE. But for the following two thousand years, Israel was also a common designation for the Jewish community worldwide, “international Jewry” as some call it. That was the meaning of “Israel”, for example, when the British Daily Express of March 24, 1933 printed on its front page: “The whole of Israel throughout the world is united in declaring an economic and financial war on Germany.”[3] The members of Israel were then called Israelites interchangeably with Jews. Although quite contradictory in terms, the two notions (national Israel and international Israel) have been conflated by the 1948 Law of Return, which made every Israelite of the globe a virtual Israeli.

Today, Zionism has shifted into a kind of meta-Zionism where the greatest number of the Israeli elite—including individuals with no stamped Israeli citizenship but a profound loyalty to the Jewish state—reside outside Israel. Some of them hold key positions in state administrations, particularly in the United States. As Gilad Atzmon remarks, “there is no geographical center to the Zionist endeavor. It is hard to determine where Zionist decisions are made”; “the Israelis colonize Palestine and the Jewish Diaspora is there to mobilize lobbies by recruiting international support.”[4] The neoconservatives—“an intellectual movement in America to whose invention Jews can lay sole claim,” as correctly assessed the Jewish Daily Forward[5] — are the most influential group of Diaspora Jews dedicated to Israel. They are no conservatives in the traditional sense, but rather crypto-Likudniks posturing as American patriots in order to align US foreign and military policies with the Greater Israel agenda—high-level sayanim, so to speak (read John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, 2008).

Their mentor Leo Strauss, in his 1962 lecture “Why We Remain Jews,” declared himself an ardent supporter of the State of Israel but rejected the idea that Israel as a nation should be contained within borders; Israel, he argued, must retain her specificity, which is to be everywhere.[6] Indeed, this paradoxical nature of Israel is vital to its existence: although its stated purpose is to welcome all the Jews of the world, the state of Israel would collapse if it achieved this goal. It is unsustainable without the support of international Jewry. Therefore, Israel needs every Jew of the world to define his/her Jewishness as loyalty to Israel. Ever since 1967, the hearts of an increasing number of American Jews began to beat secretly, and then more and more openly, for Israel. Reform Judaism, which had originally declared itself to be exclusively religious and opposed to Zionism, soon rationalized this new situation by a 1976 resolution affirming: “The State of Israel and the Diaspora, in fruitful dialogue, can show how a People transcends nationalism while affirming it, thus establishing an example for humanity.”[7]

How do they both affirm and transcend nationalism? The biblical way. The Hebrew Bible, the Tanakh, is the unalterable prototype of Jewish history: everything that follows the fall of the Hasmonean kingdom has to be biblical—the Holocaust, for example. Inevitably, Jewish nationalism, or patriotic love for Israel, resonates with the destiny of Israel as outlined in the Bible: “Yahweh your God will raise you higher than every other nation in the world” (Deuteronomy 28:1). Every nation is a narration, and Israel’s narrative pattern is cast into the Hebrew Bible. To love Israel is to love Israel’s biblical story, no matter of how mythical it is. And through biblical prophecy, the vision of the past becomes the vision the future: Solomon’s empire will come to pass.

That is why Zionism was never an ordinary form of nationalism, nor can Israel ever be a “nation like others.” The paradoxical nature of Israel is best embodied by its founding father Ben-Gurion: a secular Jew who saw himself as a new Joshua,[8] hoped for “the restoration of the kingdom of David and Solomon,”[9] and prophesized that Jerusalem will be “the seat of the Supreme Court of Mankind, to settle all controversies among the federated continents, as prophesied by Isaiah.”[10] Let us be fair and assume that Ben-Gurion was simply referring to Isaiah’s prophecy that “the Law will issue from Zion” and that Yahweh will “judge between the nations and arbitrate between many peoples” (2:3-4), not to the Second Isaiah’s prophecy that Israel “will feed on the wealth of nations” (61:6), and that nations who do not serve Israel “will be utterly destroyed” (60:12).[11] Ben-Gurion’s vision lives on: a 2003 “Jerusalem Summit” attended by three acting Israeli ministers including Benjamin Netanyahu and many American neoconservatives including Richard Perle, affirmed that “one of the objectives of Israel’s divinely-inspired rebirth is to make it the center of the new unity of the nations, which will lead to an era of peace and prosperity, foretold by the Prophets.”[12] Zionists have always been in love with the Bible.

Such are the geopolitical implications of the Jewish paradox: Zionism cannot be a mere nationalistic aspiration, as long as it claims to be Jewish, for “Jewish” means “biblical”. And more than two thousand years ago, the ancient prophets had bent over the cradle of Israel to predestine it as “a nation above other nations.” Israel carries in its biblical genes the plan for a world order headquartered in Jerusalem. I’m not talking about a secret conspiracy here: the Jewish plan to rule the world has been plainly outlined in the global bestseller for more than two thousand years. If most people in the Christian world don’t see it, it is because it is right under their nose. Christians claim that the Jews don’t read their Bible correctly, or that they got their Zionism from the Talmud or the Kabbalah. Both claims are pitiful attempts to exonerate the Old Testament from the Zionist catastrophe: the Hebrew Bible was written by Jews for the Jews, and I have never heard a Zionist quote the Talmud or the Kabbalah, whereas they quote the Bible every day.

The prophetic spirit that inspired Isaiah long ago has been very active since the beginning of the 20th century. It spoke through religious leaders like Kaufmann Kohler, a leading figure of American Reformed Judaism, who wrote in his major work on Jewish Theology (New York, 1918) that “Israel, the suffering Messiah of the centuries, shall at the end of days become the triumphant Messiah of the nations.”[13] And it spoke through secular thinkers like Alfred Nossig, a Zionist who collaborated with the Gestapo in the Warsaw ghetto for the emigration of selected Jews to Palestine, who wrote in his Integrales Judentum (Berlin, 1922):

“The Jewish community is more than a people in the modern political sense of the word. It is the repository of a historically global mission, I would say even a cosmic one, entrusted to it by its founders Noah and Abraham, Jacob and Moses. [. . .] The primordial conception of our ancestors was to found not a tribe but a world order destined to guide humanity in its development.”[14]

The Feuerbachan approach

The paradoxical nature of Jewishness (combining separatism and universalism), which is reflected in the ambiguous nature of Zionism (combining nationalism and internationalism), is ultimately linked to the Jewish conception of God. Is the biblical Yahweh the national god of Israel or the universal God of humankind? Let’s search for an answer into the Book of Ezra, the paradigmatic episode for the Jewish colonization of Palestine. It begins with an edict of the Persian king Cyrus, which says:

“Yahweh, the God of Heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and has appointed me to build him a Temple in Jerusalem, in Judah. […] Let [every Jew] go up to Jerusalem, in Judah, and build the Temple of Yahweh, the God of Israel, who is the God in Jerusalem” (Ezra 1:2–3).

Here Cyrus speaks in the name of “the God of Heaven” while authorizing the Judean exiles to build a temple to “the God of Israel […] the God in Jerusalem.” We understand that both phrases refer to the same God, called Yahweh in both instances, but the duality is significant. It is repeated in the Persian edict authorizing the second wave of return. It is now Artaxerxes, “king of kings,” who switches from the “God of Heaven” to “your God” or “the God of Israel who resides in Jerusalem” when addressing Ezra (7:12–15). The phrase “God of Heaven” appears one more time in the book of Ezra, and that is again in the edict of another Persian king: Darius confirms Cyrus’s edict and recommends that the Israelites “may offer sacrifices acceptable to the God of Heaven and pray for the life of the [Persian] king and his sons” (6:10). Elsewhere the book of Ezra only refers to the “God of Israel” (four times), “Yahweh, the God of your fathers” (once), and “our God” (ten times). In other words, according to the author of the book of Ezra, only the kings of Persia see Yahweh as “the God of Heaven” (a fiction, of course: for Persians, the God of Heaven meant Ahura Mazda) while for the Jews he is primarily the “God of Israel”. That is the deepest secret of Judaism, and the key to Jews’ relationship to universalism and to the nations: success rests on their ability to make Gentiles believe that the national god of Israel residing in the Jerusalem Temple is the God of Heaven who happens to have a preference for Israel.

The misunderstanding led to a public scandal in 167 CE, when the Hellenistic emperor Antiochos IV dedicated the temple in Jerusalem to Zeus Olympios, the supreme God. He was simply expressing the idea that Yahweh and Zeus were two names for the supreme cosmic God, the Heavenly father of all mankind. But the Jewish Maccabees who led the rebellion against him knew better: Yahweh may be the Supreme God, but He is Jewish. Only Jews are intimate with Him, and any way the Pagans worship Him is an abomination.

So is Yahweh God, or just the god of Israel? Why should we care? Well, let’s call it the Feuerbachan approach to the Jewish question. In his famous work The Essence of Christianity (1841), which was to influence greatly Karl Marx, Ludwig Feuerbach sees the universal God as “the deified and objectified spiritual essence of man”: theology is anthropology in disguise, and “The consciousness of God is the self-consciousness of man.” But if we regard the biblical Yahweh as a creation of Jews alone, rather than humanity at large, then we can consider him as a personification of the national character of the Jewish people—or, more correctly, a reflexion of the mentality of the Jewish elite who invented Yahweh.

It is known to biblical scholars that, in the oldest strata of the Bible, Yahweh appears as a national, ethnic god, not the supreme God of the Universe. “For all peoples go forward, each in the name of its god, while we go forward in the name of Yahweh our god for ever and ever” (Micah 4:5)[15]. “I am the god of your ancestors,” Yahweh says to Moses (Exodus 3:6), who is then mandated to declare to his people, “Yahweh, the god of your ancestors, has appeared to me,” urging them to talk to Pharaoh in the name of “Yahweh, the god of the Hebrews” (3:16–18). The Hebrews chant after the miracle of the Red Sea engulfing Pharaoh and his army, “Yahweh, who is like you, majestic in sanctity, among the gods?” (15:11).[16] And in Canaan, a Hebrew chief declares to an enemy king: “Will you not keep as your possession whatever Chemosh, your god, has given you? And, just the same, we shall keep as ours whatever Yahweh our god has given us, to inherit from those who were before us!” (Judges 11:24).[17] In all these verses, Yahweh is an ethnic or national god among others.

What sets him apart from other tribal gods of his kind is possessive exclusivism: “You shall have no other gods to rival me” (Exodus 20:3); “I shall set you apart from all these peoples, for you to be mine” (Leviticus 20:26). This is the justification for strict endogamy: it is forbidden to marry one’s children to a non-Jew, “for your son would be seduced from following me into serving other gods” (Deuteronomy 7:4).

Yahweh is known as “the Jealous One” (Exodus 20:5 and 34:14; Deuteronomy 4:24, 5:9, and 6:15). But jealousy is an euphemism for outright sociopathy, because what Yahweh demands from his people is not just exclusivity of worship, but the destruction of their neighbors’ shrines: “Tear down their altars, smash their standing-stones, cut down their sacred poles and burn their idols” (Deuteronomy 7:5). Judean kings are judged on the unique criterion of their obedience to that precept. Hezekiah, whose disastrous policy of confrontation with Assyria led to a shrinking of the country, is praised for having done “what Yahweh regards as right,” namely abolishing the “high places” (2 Kings 18:3–4). His son Manasseh, whose 50-year reign is known to historians as a time of peace and prosperity, is blamed for having done “what is displeasing to Yahweh, copying the disgusting practices of the nations whom Yahweh had dispossessed for the Israelites” (2 Kings 21:2). Manasseh’s son Amon is no better. Josiah, on the other hand, proved worthy of his great-great-grandfather Hezekiah, by removing from the temple “all the cult objects which had been made for Baal, Asherah and the whole array of heaven. […] He exterminated the spurious priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed and who offered sacrifice on the high places, in the towns of Judah and the neighborhood of Jerusalem; also those who offered sacrifice to Baal, to the sun, the moon, the constellations and the whole array of heaven” (2 Kings 23:4–5).

It is ironic that Yahweh, originally a minor tribal god, should compete with the great Baal for the status of supreme God, as when Elijah challenges 450 prophets of Baal in a holocaust contest, which ends up with the slaughter of them all (1Kings 18). In ancient Syria, Baal Shamem, the “Heavenly Lord,” was identified as the God of Heaven and honored by all peoples except the Jews.[18] The goddess Asherah, whom Yahweh loathed even more, was the Great Divine Mother worshipped throughout the Middle East. In Mesopotamia, she went under the name of Ishtar, while in the Hellenistic era, she was assimilated to the Egyptian goddess Isis. The Hebrews themselves called her “Queen of Heaven” and turned to her in times of trouble, to the dismay of their priest and prophet Jeremiah, who threatened them with Yahweh’s exterminating wrath (Jeremiah 44).

Historians of religion tell us that Yahweh was still a national god at a time when the notion of a supreme God was widespread. When and how the Levites declared the god of Israel to be the true and only God is not entirely settled, but it is generally admitted that it happened shortly before the time of Ezra, when the Book of Genesis was composed (with much borrowing from Mesopotamian and Persian myths). The process is easy to imagine, for it follows the cognitive logic of a narcissistic sociopath among the community of gods: from the commandment of exclusive worship and the destruction of other gods’ shrines, it is a small step to the denial of the very existence of other gods; and if Yahweh is the only existing god, he must be “The God.”

A curious story about King Hezekiah can serve as an illustration of this process. The Assyrian king threatens Hezekiah in the following manner, explicitly identifying Yahweh as the national god of Israel:

“Do not let your god on whom you are relying deceive you with the promise: ‘Jerusalem will not fall into the king of Assyria’s clutches’ […] Did the gods of the nations whom my ancestors devastated save them?”

Hezekiah then goes up to the Temple and offers the following prayer:

“It is true, Yahweh, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations, they have thrown their gods on the fire, for these were not gods but human artifacts—wood and stone—and hence they have destroyed them. But now, Yahweh our god, save us from his clutches, I beg you, and let all the kingdoms of the world know that you alone are God, Yahweh” (2 Kings 19:10–19).

So here we witness how Yahweh was promoted from the status of a national god to that of universal God by the prayer of a devout king. In response to that prayer, according to the biblical story, “the angel of Yahweh went out and struck down a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp,” then struck their king by the hand of his sons (19:35–37). Pure fiction: the Assyrian annals tell us that in reality, Hezekiah paid tribute to the Assyrian king. Which proves that Hezekiah’s claim was deceptive.

Conclusion

The exclusive monotheism demanded by Yahweh is a degraded imitation of that inclusive monotheism toward which all the wisdoms of the ancient world converged by affirming the fundamental unity of all gods. As Egyptologist Jan Assmann emphasizes, the polytheisms of the great civilizations were cosmotheisms, insofar as the gods, among other functions, form the organic body of the world. Such a conception naturally led to a form of inclusive or convergent monotheism, compatible with polytheism: all gods are one, as the cosmos is one.[19] The notion of the unity of the divine realm naturally connects with the notion of a supreme God, creator of heaven and earth, enthroned atop a hierarchy of deities emanating from him—a concept familiar to Plato, Aristotle, Seneca, and most ancient philosophers. The exclusive and revolutionary monotheism that the Yahwist priests crafted for their own benefit is of a totally different kind: it is, in fact, the exact opposite of the inclusive and evolutionary monotheism of neighboring peoples.

From the historical perspective, it is not the Creator of the Universe who decided, at some point, to become the god of Israel; rather, it is the god of Israel who, at some point, was declared the Creator of the Universe by the Levites and their scribes. The Jewish conception of Yahweh parallels that historical process: for the Jews, Yahweh is primarily the god of Jews, and secondarily the Creator of the Universe. This is what Maurice Samuel kindly tried to tell us in You Gentiles (1924): “In the heart of any pious Jew, God is a Jew.” “We [Jews] and God grew up together,” that is why “we need a world of our own, a God-world, which it is not in your nature to build.”[20]

And so the paradoxical nature of Yahweh is, in reality, a deception. The idea that the Heavenly Father of humankind, somewhere in the second millennium BCE, chose a particular people and ordered them to dispossess and slaughter other peoples is, any way we look at it, an outrageous absurdity. The fact that billions of people have believed it for thousands of years makes no difference. Or rather, that is the problem: many peoples throughout history have believed themselves to have been chosen by God, but only the Jews have managed to convince others that they have. That has turned this outrageous absurdity into the most devastating idea in world history.

The deceptive nature of biblical monotheism is the key to understanding traditional Jewish attitude to universalism. For the Jewish conception of God is reflected in the Jewish conception of Humanity. Just like their tribal god speaks of himself—through his prophets—as the God of humankind, Jewish communitarian thinkers speak of Jewishness as the essence of humanity: Judaism constitutes a “particularism that conditions universality” so that “there is an obvious equation between Israel and the Universal”; in other words, “Israel equals humanity” (Emmanuel Levinas, Difficult Freedom: Essays on Judaism, 1990).[21] It is almost always in reference to their Jewishness that such opinion makers, who are often ardent Zionists, proclaim themselves universalists: see for example how Rabbi Joachim Prinz, a German Zionist who in 1934 had applauded the Nazi state for being “built upon the principle of the purity of nation and race,” declared in 1963, as chairman of the American Jewish Congress, that he supported the African-American civil rights movement “as a Jew.”[22] “Jewish universalism” is a contradiction in terms and therefore necessarily deceptive. It is self-deception in the case of most Jews, who believe what they have been taught by their representative elites ever since the Haskalah: that there is no contradiction in being a tribalist at home and a universalist in the street—provided that, in each of their universalist stand, they do not lose sight of the important question: “Yes, but is it good for the Jews?”[23] Of course, there are many remarkable exceptions: Jews who have broken through the mental “Jewish prison” (as Jewish journalist Jean Daniel calls it)[24] to reach for some universal truths. I call it the genius of the escapee.

Ultimately, the deceptive nature of both biblical monotheism and Jewish universalism is a key to unraveling the Zionist paradox: nationalism and internationalism go hand in hand in Israel’s destiny, because Israel is, fundamentally, a biblical and therefore universal project. For the Jewish cognitive elites who determine Jewish public opinion to a large extent, the New World Order is an ancient et eternal idea. It is Israel’s destiny carved in the Bible. It is inherent to Jewishness.

Most translations use a uppercase for the “God of Israel”, and a lowercase for other national gods, but ancient Hebrew does not distinguish between uppercase and lowercase letters, so here, and in further quotes, I have used a lowercase g for all national gods, including Israel’s, and reserved the uppercase G for the One supreme God. ↑

Prinz’s pro-Nazi statements from his 1934 bookWir Juden are quoted in Israel Shahak, Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years, Pluto Press, 1994, p. 86. Prinz’ introduction to King’s “I have a dream” speech on August 28, 1963, beginning with “I speak to you as an American Jew,” is at www.joachimprinz.com/images/mow.mp3. ↑

Jonny Geller made this paradigmatic question the title of his humorous book Yes, But Is It Good for the Jews? Bloomsbury, 2006. ↑

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Great article, indeed. Made me think how crazy the israeli zionists are… They do believe in superstition, mythology, don’t they? They are not very intelligent… Just brainwashed ordinary human beings; so, very ignorant.

EXACTLY! “The exclusive monotheism demanded by Yahweh is a degraded imitation of that inclusive monotheism toward which all the wisdoms of the ancient world converged by affirming the fundamental unity of all gods.”

They were never chronicles. THeonly chronicles (aka historians were the Greeks). As for your second statment, accordingly to the latest things I read they started out as caravan hijackers in what’s called today Yemen. They have making up stories to suit their cause starting with their Old Testament in IX century. It’s the Greeks who taught them reading and writing. This is why all the archeological findings in Israel have Greek writings.

The Hebrew nation which descends from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, was designed by God as a historical, physical, and spiritual revelation of how a glorious and absolutely pure and holy God could love a most pitiable people. The Tanakh is a revelation of a Hebrew people who were continuously sinning against God, yet through their sacrificial system of confession, and repentance sought to maintain the favor of God.

We see in the Tanakh over and over again that the Hebrews were exceptionally rebellious, and yet, God was forgiving and gracious.

In the book of Deuteronomy 9 verses 5&6: we read, ” 5 It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God drives them out from before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 6 Therefore understand that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.”

The nature of God’s relationship with the ancient Hebrews was to reveal God’s character to the entire world through a separate and holy nation committed to purity of which God would abide with, or dwell with in their land.

The Hebrews failed God through impurity and sin, just like the other nations, yet God had mercy on them and preserved them to show the world His character for all men to enjoy. The God of the Hebrews was to be the God of all nations.

God elevated the Hebrews to show that no man in and of himself, has intrinsic purity and holiness and is worthy for God to unite to, but in God’s mercy, God himself would provide a sacrifice for sin that would purify and then qualify the Hebrews to have God literally dwell with them.

Because God inhabited first their Tabernacle, and then their Temple, God manifested himself through the Hebrew nation to the world. But, the Hebrews failed in spreading their revelation of God’s character, but rather nationalized it. The light to the Gentiles was but a dead, and dark, torch. The Hebrew’s main reason for existence is to know their God, to dwell with their God, and to make God’s mercy and love known among all nations. But this mandate and true purpose was turned inward into selfish pride and national exceptionalism.

The relationship between God and the Hebrews was one that highlighted the inability of the Hebrew nation to remain faithful to God’s commandments for this was God’s grand design that through the Hebrews, a Savior of all mankind would come, namely Jesus Christ. He would fulfill the ancient sacrificial system and once and for all provide forgiveness to all men through his sacrifice, death, and resurrection.

Because the Hebrews turned away from their mandate to be a light to the Gentiles we see the true purpose of the very existence of the Hebrews, that through them, a global savior would come to restore all of mankind to God.

God’s light would then forever burn through the torch of his Church. The Church would encompass both the Jew and Gentile, and God himself would dwell within her.

One of the last pictures and prophecies of the Church, the people of God composing both Hebrew and Gentiles, is stated in the last book of the Bible, the Book of Revelation, chapter 21 and verse 3: “3 And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.”

The God of the Hebrews was to be revealed through them to the world with the coming of their Messiah, Jesus Christ. Jesus is Immanuel, meaning, God with us. He is the light to the nations which everyone must see and comprehend.

The Hebrew nation is a vehicle; historical, physical, and spiritual, which is still presently designed to reveal Jesus Christ as the Savior of both Jew and Gentile. Jesus Christ is God, and He wills to dwell as God incarnate forever and ever, with all people’s on earth.

The selfish emancipation of the Hebrews from their mandate to reveal Jesus Christ as the Savior of the world is a deviation, a distortion, a distraction from the true purposes of the Hebrew nation.

“The relationship between God and the Hebrews was one that highlighted the inability of the Hebrew nation to remain faithful to God’s commandments for this was God’s grand design that through the Hebrews, a Savior of all mankind would come, namely Jesus Christ. He would fulfill the ancient sacrificial system and once and for all provide forgiveness to all men through his sacrifice, death, and resurrection.

Because the Hebrews turned away from their mandate to be a light to the Gentiles we see the true purpose of the very existence of the Hebrews, that through them, a global savior would come to restore all of mankind to God.”

Excellent comment with one correction – God through Jesus Christ did not provide salvation to ‘all of mankind’, but only to those who believe on Him. This is an extremely important distinction. Salvation is not, nor was ever conceived to be, universal in nature. There is a hell however you wish to define it (burning pit, eternal separation from God, etc) – Jesus made that perfectly clear – and the vast majority follow the very wide road to it. Only through God’s Grace do the few believers (both Jew and Gentile) attain the right path – again, as in the case of the Hebrew’s takeover of the Promised Land, not by any inherent righteousness on their part but only through that of God.

You make it sound so complicated. Laurent Guyénot, and others, like Youssef Hindi, making waves in France through the good offices of E&R, owe an immense debt of gratitude to several Jewish scholars as well as to the scholarship of Douglas Reed [The Controversy of Zion] and Nesta Webster [The French Revoltion (1919) and Secret Societies and Subversive Movements (1923) …]. I believe a cultural and historical distinction can be made between Judahites (From Judea : whence the Pharisees) and the Israelites (essentially from Galilee – Jesus was a Galilean and not as we understand the word Jew). The distinction, I repeat, is cultural and historical and not racial and has to do with the way a prehistoric god Yahweh came into being in Canaan and how a number of ‘navel-worshiping’ devotees of Yahweh, started calling themselves the Chosen People and simultaneously began reviling common humanity as beasts to be either enslaved or slaughtered. For proof look at certain, particularly bloodthirsty, demeaning and dangerous (for Gentiles) passages, both in the Talmud and in the Tanakh (Old Testament – for example Deuteronomy, Joshua, Obadia).

Congratulations to The Saker for publishing this first-rate article. Here’s a link to an interview with Laurent Guyénot https://youtu.be/W8zETlezw9M

From “JFK-9/11” to the “Jewish Question”: Talking to Kevin Barrett, Laurent Guyénot introduces “From Yahweh to Zion” https://youtu.be/W8zETlezw9M. Published on Jan 28, 2018 Laurent Guyenot’s From Yahweh to Zion may be the best book ever written on what used to be called “the Jewish question.” In this interview Dr. Guyenot explains how his study of the Deep State, specifically its role in 9/11 and the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers, led him to a historical re-examination of Judaism and Jewish identity politics. From Yahweh to Zion raises many “Jewish questions” including : Is Judaism/Jewishness a religion or an ethnicity ? What is the Jews’ relationship to God, and to Jesus and the prophets ? What accounts for the Jews’ ability to maintain tribal cohesion over more than 2500 years ? Why have Jewish communities so often been at odds with their non-Jewish neighbors? Why have Jews been over-represented—in many non-Jewish societies throughout history—in positions of wealth and power ? Why does this over-representation seem to be increasing today ? Why is this issue off-limits for discussion in polite company (including the mainstream media and the academy)? Is Jewish tribal cohesion an important factor in the Deep State ? And what role does the creation and endless expansion of Israel play in all of this ? The eminent theologian John Cobb writes of From Yahweh to Zion: “This is a remarkable book in many ways.”

To my thinking, it all comes down to : 1. The refractory nature of revelation; 2. The refractory nature of the human heart.
As modern people, paganism is not a serious option. As Phillip K. Dick writes, “We can no longer cry out to Asclepius.” We already know too much. It doesn’t help that we have a God who asks the impossible.

This comment, in a very concise manner depicts that essence and effortlessly presents the origin, development, and ill nature of the Zionists beliefs. Furthermore, for someone, to really understand the old testament should consult the writings, on the subject, of the holy fathers of the Christian church who collectively spent many lifetimes over the first millennium after Christ providing the true meaning and purpose of the bible. A serious researcher should do at least that in order to avoid one way street interpretations.

You do not need a street interpretation to understand that the Old Testament and the New Testament are both man made and have nothing to do with a supreme being GOD. The three primary religion’s stem from Abraham who was a mythical figure as portrayed by these books.

For a weed to grow it needs water. Money is the water/oxygen that our friends use for their nefarious purposes.

Haibaru donkey caravans moved from City State to City State, plying their merchant trade. They would sit outside City Gates plotting ways to take it down.

Usury was Haibaru method of sordid gain for many centuries, especially taking difference in exchange between Silver and Gold. Gold would flow from India, and Silver would flow East, draining both civilizations, while our ((friends)) would take their outsize cut for transporting the metal. This was hugely profitable, and secret – not showing up in economic textbooks.

Our friends got more “Water” to sustain their scams in Greece, putting farmers into silver debts. The clay ledgers would grow with usury and demand payment in silver. Only silver was made dear, so farmers had to cancel their debts with their lives as slaves… to work in the silver mines. Many a Greek farmer died mining silver in Lydia. This ultimately led to Solon’s reforms, and the Jew was ejected. This ejection is to repeat some 160 times in ensuing centuries from various countries, as Jews plied their game of sordid gains.

Slavery took root in Greece due to silver debts, with slave depots pointing out toward the sea, with our friends running their slave trade using ships. Slavery is just another form of usury, taking lives in exchange for debts.

In the modern era, the water the nourishes the weed, comes out of finance. Banking Corporations putting countries into debt first appeared on the scene in 1694 with advent of bank of england. And yes, it was maneuvering by our friends, as they had lost their former silver/gold schemes to Portugal. After Vasco de Gama discovered the southern route, the overland caravan route fell to Portuguese shipping, and gold/silver along with spices were unloaded in Amsterdam.

700 unlicensed Sephardic Jews created most of the sneaky methods used in Stock Market Capital. Gets, Puts, and especially insider trading. From here also the first corporations tied to finance began. It was only a hop and skip for the parasite to jump from Amsterdam to London. Corporations morphed from having charters and being limited, to becoming “more” than humans, especially with money powered megaphone and control of votes.

All of this maneuvering and scheming is given sanction and cover by religious ideology. This “merchant” activity is always against the Sovereign, and treats populations as hosts to be milked. Life energy is directed away from the host and toward the parasite. Meanwhile, the parasite emits hypnosis to keep host convinced said parasite is “good for the body.”

We can identify defects and psychopathy in Judaism, and many western Christian thinkers have analyzed it correctly many 100’s of years ago.

The first and primary solution is to defund Jewish Usury, to then defund the power/water/nourishment that is used to subvert host populations. If you don’t want a weed to grow, then stop watering it.

A sovereign money system puts money power back where it belongs, under moral law. Money’s true nature is law, not “merchant credit.” In other words, a giant hoax has been perpetuated against humanity in the form of corporate bank credit. Who owns the stocks? Haibaru donkey caravaneer descendants, long the merchants, have managed to insert their money type into trading relations of man, and from there, they take their usury and fund control of events.

This is a great analysis, I came to similar conclusions while collecting and researching ancient coins, I guess Martin Armstrong got here too. Your narrative is of a much higher level than my humble understanding, thank you for posting this.

No, if you don’t want the weeds to grow, you yank them out from deep in their roots. That’s the best method.

Btw, I have read a lot on this vexing Jewish question, know for fact that the Talmud and Kabbala supersede the ‘bible’ as the nucleus of Judaism.

Another thing that Jews tell Christians is that the Bible is a book of symbolism and only through the interpretation of a learned elder Rabbi is the meaning able to be understood, thus a Christian must consult a Talmudic/Kabbalist Rabbi for the true meaning of the Bible.

This is how 50 million Christian Zionist bootlickers in the U.S. alone (The Christian Alliance for Israel,et al) have been duped and gone so far as to be believers that although Jews conspired against Jesus, son of Mary, even so, since they have been ‘Gods chosen’, and don’t accept Jesus as their savior , they still will enter paradise. And that anything Israel/Jews do i.e. murder, steal , deceit, subversions, and sometimes outright genocides, its ok, because the man- written Bible(Levite Rabbis and their scribes) says that the Jews are Gods chosen, and therefore allowed and encouraged.

‘Ye will know them by their deeds…’ Jesus. And their deeds are nothing short of being diabolical in essence.

Their God is no other that Lucifer/Iblees(in Arabic-Quran) and their work on earth is to lay the groundwork for the fallen one himself to conquer, subjugate mankind.

Judaism, the Talmud and Kabbala is nothing but occultism, self-worship and an outright mutiny against God Almighty, creator of the heavens and the earth, the God of all mankind whom he favors equally according to each individual humans deeds.

If ‘God’ hath chosen/favors a certain peoples over others, that would in essence make God’ a bigot.

They , the Jews may plan, and plot, scheme and deceive, but God almighty is the best of planners.

No worries, they will be knocked off their high horse soon, in due time.

You have written that
// if you don’t want the weeds to grow, you yank them out from deep in their roots. That’s the best method.//

There was a better method. Pour Honey on the roots of the weed. Insects & ants will attack the root and destroy the weed from root. Many civilization got destroyed when they became ultra-rich & barbarians attacked them.

Please note that I don’t want to see any group gets destroyed. I just wish to see that their evil intentions are destroyed.

See Revelation 2:9 and 3:9 I believe this explains who is behind “World Conquest” The reason there is so much confusion about Jews is that when Israel is mentioned in the Scriptures it’s applied to Jews, yet it’s so clear that Israel usually applies to the so-called “Lost Tribes” according to Yahweh-God they are Not lost because He makes it clear He will sift them like corn and not lose any, there are too many clues that to list that the nation that will be invaded by the nation from the North and it’s allies don’t fit the nation Israel, but fit America like a tailor made glove, the nation Persia is named but today called Iran, mist Bible scholars applies this to Jews in Israel. Many call Abraham a Jew, this was impossible since Abraham was Jacob’s grandfather. As for God’s chosen? Jesus had his most harshest words for these people, calling them children of Satan Etc Etc. for some good information see “Facts Are Facts” written by Doctor Benjamin Friedman” According to several well known Jews the Babylonian Talmud is the life blood of their religion

Only Jews are intimate with Him, and any way the Pagans worship Him is an abomination.

Mutatis mutandis, all peoples pretty much believe this as regards their religion. Ask a Christian if he can be “saved” as a Hindu, a Moslem, a Buddhist. Even within the religions, believers will believe that their sect or division is the “true” one, and that the others are heretics. The Protestants are in manifest error, so are the Catholics, and so are the Orthodox–depending on who is determining this. Moreover, the Buddhists do not worship an anthropomorphic deity as do the Semitic monotheists (Judaism, Christianity, Islam).

Zionism–or Jewish globalism–would be nowhere without Jewish banking. Money is king. “Money talks…,” “money makes the world go ’round,” “Follow the Money.” Everyone knows this, yet how few analyses are fully consequential. For Zionism, British and US imperialism have performed the function of a promised land.

MEFOBILLS and you (Brant) complement each other quite well. I am impressed. Thank you, guys!

As to religion, Marx said before: ‘it is the opium of the people’. And rightly so. Would religion strive without money (or which came first, the egg or the chicken?)? I think we have passed the time of believing in sun gods or god gods… “Follow the money”!

First night of Passover is for Jews/family only and the second and remaining Seder nights can be open to also invite non Jews–this is an unspoken tradition. Actually, it is a fair enough one for a tribal folk.

Once in a study cognitive dissonance was created when I asked, “Isn’t it a rather thin line between the concept of a chosen people and the concept of a master race?” Actually, this just created outrage since it never really sunk in to the point of actually being considered worthy to be answered. I Never did return to that study group
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The truth of the matter is that the Chosen people are a master race but they consider themselves a benevolent master race hence the steely self righteous glint in the eye of the typical Jewish SJW. Now backing all this up in the commentaries on the Tanakh are rules….and more rules….rules of how to do things and rules of how not to do things. Anal people are ready converts! Internet surveillance junkies gather around!

And It is in all the first 5 books—the whole contradiction of baby Moses being hunted by a genocidal pharoah and then Moses the tribal leader pharoah-like killing all the Midianite babies ( and everyone else except female Midianite who were selected by some kind of power vest that lit up whenever a Midianite virgin approached) . Hey, I can’t make this up–read it.

So here is the metaphor: Moses never made it into the promised land ( not because he was rude to a rock and didn’t follow orders to a “T”) but because he did not “get” it. The single greatest leader of the Jewish people never made it into the promised land and is buried in an unmarked grave outside. This is the metaphor of the Bible of why the Jews will never lead anyone anywhere into any promised land. People of the book. People of the abstraction. People of rules and regulations.

Next stage in the tribal ( not universal) story is the Book of Joshua–the first primer on genocide.

Firstly, Moses never existed in Egypt. Cuneiform tablets at Kuruk dated c 3200 BC relate the story of a temple priestess who hid her pregnancy and when the child was born fashioned a basket of reeds, waterproofed it with bitumen and floated it in the Euphrates river. The basket was found by some soldiers who raised the child who became King Saragon. This myth was repeated for subsequent kings named Saragon even after the influx of the East Semitic people.
Joseph, he of the coat of many colours and the ancestor of Moses, was thrown down a well by his brothers and sold to a camel caravan who sold him as a slave in Egypt. This would date to late bronze age somewhere about 1500 BC. The narrative fails here because the earliest domesticated camel caravans date 600 years later c 900 BC.
Concerning the killing of the firstborn, first by the Pharaoh and later Herod, when Alexander conquered Syria and Egypt the Greek sensibilities were outraged by two abominations practiced by Phoenician and Canaanite Semitic people. The first was genital mutilation, for the Greeks the male body was perfect but to appear in public with the foreskin pulled back and the glans exposed was the grossest obscenity. This in part was later to lead to the Maccabees rebellion, what you might call the foreskin war.
The second was the Semitic practice of sacrificing the firstborn child to the goddess. When the Romans overran Carthage they were appalled by infant necropolii. Is this why all those infant skeletons were recently unearthed in Galilee?
The Torah claims the Hebrews modified this law so the father redeemed his child by paying a coin to the temple. Since coins were invented after 600 BC this was a later occurrence.
Another interesting tale from the Kuruk tablets is Goddess Lananna, the first crucified savior. She went down to the underworld ruled by her evil older sister who killed her and fastened her to a wooden frame. After three days Lananna’s friends administered the elixer of life and she came alive again. She was renamed Ishtar in later centuries and so on to Easter today.
Did you know that Allah was a goddess of Palmyra when Mohammed adopted her? Subsequent redaction of the Koran by the three Caliphates leave us nothing of the original Koran if there ever was one.
If possible it is even more fictitious than the Christian Bible.
Yahweh also was a God/Goddess in Persian Jerusalem.
The Torah it boasts David used to sneak out at night to murder the neighbours in their beds.

‘ Did you know that Allah was a goddess of Palmyra when Mohammed adopted her? Subsequent redaction of the Koran by the three Caliphates leave us nothing of the original Koran if there ever was one.
If possible it is even more fictitious than the Christian Bible. ‘

Would you care to elaborate on you claim/s ?

The Quran was memorized by heart by many early followers of Islam, before any of the Caliphates.

In the earliest days of Islam, many of these reciters / memorizers travelled to the far corners of the known world, having taken with them written Quran as well. One example is the Muslim community that traveled to Abyssinia, explaining to the Christian King there the Quran and the tenets of Islam. The polytheist Meccans went to Abyssinia wanting the King to surrender the Muslims to them. The King of Abyssinia held court and listened to the two sides. He heard verses from the Quran and was explained them, upon which he declared ‘ There is not but a fine line between our two faiths.’

Thus the Muslims were allowed to stay, and the Meccans (Qurieshis) were asked to leave without their converted kin.

No where in Palmyra, nor anywhere else, is their a temple for your so called claim, nor is their an inkling of the most holy name Allah (swt) anywhere in the world prior to the revelations of the message of Islam and the Quran to prophet and messenger Muhammed (pbuh) thru archangel Gabriel.

Many have tried to punch holes in the Quran and all have failed. Allah (God almighty, swt) directly tells naysayers like yourself and disbelievers to come up with even one chapter in the glorious likeness of the Quran. No one has come close.

Ever wonder why Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world by conversion rate alone, today and in the past? Simply put, its a divine miracle from God almighty, creator of the heavens and the earth, and all that’s between.

Can you explain the scientific miracles stated in the Quran verified by modern science, when the Quran was brought down to Muhammed (pbuh) 1400+ years ago? An illiterate Arab Bedouin?

That reminds me of every mothers’ words to her child after hearing “But mommy everyone is doing it” and mother always replies “If everyone was jumping off a cliff would you do that to?”
Are you stating this to inflate your self-righteousness and self ego or out of a true knowledge of the creator?
When true knowledge of the creator is forgotten goodness and piety appear.
Without true spiritual experience, empty ceremony and ritual begin.
Throw away holiness and wisdom and people will be a hundred times happier. Throw away morality and justice and people will do the right thing.
(with apologies to the Dao De Ching and C G Jung)

@King of Abyssinia…there is not but a fine line between our two faiths.’

This is the first example of ‘Taqiya'(dissimulation or denial of religious belief and practice in the face of persecution) or ‘kitman’ (“action of covering, dissimulation”). The Muslims absconding in Abyssinia lied to the King that they had the same beliefs as the Christians (maybe they really believed that they had the same beliefs like the Christians; they don’t know even today what the Christians really believe and they don’t want to find out).

I concur, and I am going to add my own translation from Polish book (The forgotten wold of Sumerians) dedicated to archeological discoveries in Mesopotamia. The names I am using here may not exactly correspond with English pronunciation but you will get the jest, as I did not want to make it a PHD thesis out of it. So, here it comes:
The archeological finds of Sumer related writings started with Italian named Pietro della Valle, who in 1616 went to Mesopotamia and while digging in the ruins of Persoplis he discovered bricks with strange symbols. These symbols as it turned out were writings and not pictures as thought previously. So, under the ruins of Persepolis he found the ruins of an ancient Sumerian city of Ur or otherwise known as Mukajjar. The digs were picked up in 1761 by archeologist named Karsten Niebuhr. By 1778 he discovered inscribed clay tablets, which he carefully recorded. After careful analysis he concluded that the writings have to be read from left to right. They contained three columns, which he concluded contained three different types of writings. He called them class I, II, III. He also concluded that class one represented ancient Persian consisting of 42 symbols, but 9 of them did not represent letters. By the beginning of the XIX century, enough tablets were discovered to conclude that they represented three languages. With class one representing alphabetic writings, class II syllabic, and class III picture and all represented the same text. Finally Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775-1853), who was a teacher of Greek and Latin, solved the linguistic puzzle, claiming that the class I contained 40 letters. His first translation can be represented by the following: Kserkses king, son of Darus king, son of Hystaspes.
Further studies by Rowlisonson found that the name NABUHUDURRISSUR (known today as Nabuchodonozor) was represented in class II as AN-PA-SA-DU-SIS. Needless to say that some scientists laughed at him saying that no one could use such a complicated form of writing, but he had the last laugh. New branch of archaeology was created known as Assyriology and concluded that symbols represented one language which was not semitic hence the language of Sumerians. Encient city of Uruk and its treasures was discovered by William Kenneth Loftus (cartographer). Other cities like Nippur followed. They found a library with no less than 20,000 inscribed clay tablets. As they were digging they were discovering an even older ruins, which also led to the discovery of immense flood. They found archeological treasures going back to first half of 3000BC. I am going to end this with an additional statement that it was confirmed that Sumerians were also sea people.
The discoveries there shine a different light at the stories in the Bible.

The Creator looked at a certain tribe that did little but lie, steal and murder. He had given them free will but they had abused any sense of humanity; and worse – they were doing it hiding behind His name.

He decided to send his Son to show them the error of their ways. We all know how that ended.

I do not like to make negative comments about another religion but by their own scriptures their lineage is founded on deception when Jacob (Israel) deceived his father to get his brother’s birthright. I dont know any other religion that celebrates deceit like this.

well, that is myth – and you can’t judge mythology with the same logic that you judge day to day affairs –

The brother was hairy – that’s also a myth – and fighting with an angel on a ladder – that’s a myth – there’s some mysterious truth in it – but its hidden within the myth – something larger than life –

I’m okay with the Old Testament – as it stands as a national mythology – or theology if you like – its fine – its just that when Christians don’t understand – and they read ‘the Bible’ – they always fall more under the spell of the Old Testament –

The New Testament is truly about Freedom – and so reading the New Testament does not give the same security as the Old – which is ‘THE LAW’ –

Fundamentalist Christians inevitably preach Old Testament LAW –

Paul said that the Law ended with Christ and that now the Law should be written in our hearts –

And Christos Himself said that he was the Fulfillment of the Law

And as far as Zionism goes – This too shall pass

The sooner the better – ask Ahed Tamimi – who is like Micha-el – Avenging Angel.

A good reminder, Ann, thanks.
It’s a pity people are generally both unable and unwilling to learn mythology and its symbolism.
For instance, Esau the hairy elder brother represents an earlier humanity (or a en earlier stage of human development, still animal-like – hence “hairy”, and “gluttonly”) which was being gradually replaced by a newly evolved humanity, represented as a “younger brother” – and a fine boy, who takes [over] the inheritance of the elder by stealth:
– Evolution [or human development over the very long term] is “furtive, secret, imperceptible”: the new humanity grows “under the skin” of the older, and remains “hidden” there for a while, until the slow process of substitution is completed.
When Jacob has secured his blessing and inheritance, then he discards the old furry skin and appears in his own relatively hairless skin.
Genesis – as one of the better preserved collections of Near Eastern myths – is a very interesting book for a student of mythology and symbolism.
Read literally and applied to the (dead) letter, it is a poison for the mind – and a destroyer of religion. And a promoter of Zionism an other doctrines inimical to humanity.

Its not myth, its reality. The fable of Jacob and Esau is God telling the Jews that there is no right or wrong, and that progress by means of deception is the right way to do things, a lesson which the Jews have taken to heart for thousands of years.

the sad fact of the matter is that unlike these ancient peoples very few today fall under what St. Paul said to the Galatians in 3:24 about the law being our schoolmaster. Very few can say in the same context historically today that the law was our schoolmaster and this is know doubt why we have so much evil and crime in the world. Very few people know even 5 of the commandments let alone all ten? The education is atrocious. How frightening then is this push to legislate morality, a return to the Noahide Laws as we read about. This is what they think will solve the worlds problems? St. Paul would be horrified by this as we all should be.

thanks for relevant article – its such a stupidity of these humans that they take a scriptural work – out of the context of the age – and supplant it into our age – yuck.

its tragic in more than one way – that the New Testament was stapled onto the Old Testament –

Which of course the Gnostics didn’t do – when all the first Christians were lining up to be martyred – because that was ‘the way to go’ back then…..the Gnostics laughed at them and did not offer to go to martyrdom….they did thinking and figuring and meditation – trying to ‘see God’

A much better strategy – and most of the Gnostics hated the old Testament and thought that Jahveh was a jealous mean God and was definitely NOT the Father God –

I’m a Gnostic

And as far as Zionism goes – its out of control but that’s its nature and ‘this too shall pass’

The Zionists are quoting scriptures out of context and cherry picking the (mis)quotes that suit them. The author does not know the content of scripture either.
Jesus said : “you do err because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God”. And the Pharisees were supposedly Bible experts. At least they thought so.

The blessings promised to Israel were conditional on their adherence to the Old Covenant or else they would inherit curses instead…………………….and that is what happened. In fact they were worse than the nations that were expelled before them. Which is exactly what was predicted they would do right back at the start.

the Lord’s anger will burn against you , and he will shut the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the Lord is giving you.” Deuteronomy 11:18

Their history is one of droughts after droughts and the current drought of some 6 years now raises or should raise some very serious questions. I don’t understand how so many can be so oblivious to what the scriptures teach about climate change? More significantly however, is the Christian Zionists who believe that the rebirth of Israel was a fulfillment of biblical prophecy. Why would God bring about the rebirth of a nation only to make them suffer by way of a drought?

Re: “Did you know that Allah was a goddess of Palmyra when Mohammed adopted her? Subsequent redaction of the Koran by the three Caliphates leave us nothing of the original Koran if there ever was one.”

This really is utter insolent nonsense, ignorant and irresponsible, and presented as certain fact by Mr. Hilchey. As if this were the considered conclusion of knowledgeable experts. A millenium and a half of remarkably stupid credulous Muslim scholars and sages has been exposed at last by the brilliant Mr. Hilchey. You never know where and when great discoveries like these can be found announced. Chapeau! He should send his momentous discoveries to the faculties of Near Eastern studies in the US and abroad.

Fred, this is not my research, I cannot read Arabic nor Syriac, I am merely repeating what European scholars have unquestionably proved through study of ancient documents.
In part:
Scholars now believe that a copy Quran held by the Birmingham Library was actually written sometime between 568 AD and 645, while the Prophet Mohammad was believed to have been born in 570 AD and to have died in 632 AD. The copy of the widely used holy text held by the library is known for being one of the oldest in the world.
Scholars came to this conclusion after researchers carbon dated a small piece of parchment from the Islamic holy book. The carbon dating, which is considered to be extremely accurate, suggests that the Quran may have actually been written before Muhammad was alive, or during the early years of his childhood.

This is what happens when dilettantes rush in. Which “scholars”? Let’s look at Christianity. According to some “scholars,” Jesus never even existed, or He never said what the Gospels say he said, and so on ad nauseum. Some time ago, the “expert” Max Muller declared the Vedic Brahmana texts to be comparable to the “twaddle of babes.” Personally, I think that 2,000 years of Christianity counts for something, as do its sacred arts, its saints and sages, and so on. The same, mutatis mutanadis, holds true, I think, for all the great Revelations, and their millennial civilizations. If you think it is plausible that these great phenomena are all the products of chance, fakery, and simple fraud or credulousness, fine. If that were true, humanity could be qualified as incurably stupid.

Also Robert Graves book, The White Goddess, mentions an Egyptian professor at Cairo University who pointed to some verses in the Koran that are are copied from older Arab poetry, so they were not composed by Mohammed. Graves says the professor’s exam-funking students” went on strike to force their professor to recant his evidence.

It is my understanding that the the Old Testament is not a standalone document. The Bible includes the Old & New Testament together as the latter supercedes the former and the covenants made in the former are replaced by those in the New Testament.

For this reason I do not believe it is not acceptable for any religion to point to something in the Old Testament to justify anything…

Ok correction: The Old Testament aka the Tanakh IS apparently a standalone document in judaism. But again this is only valid for jews… Why does the author claim that “many peoples throughout history have believed themselves to have been chosen by God, but only the Jews have managed to convince others that they have.” Who are the others? Christian Zionists?

Excellent points Serbian girl and here’s the kicker. Concerning the Christian Zionists no group of people have misinterpreted the scriptures than by claiming that Ezekiel 38 and 39 are the current nations of Russia and Germany. 2 nations along with a number of others which are supposedly going to attack Israel in the near future and be destroyed by God accordingly. They also use this portion of scripture as proof and the basis for the rebirth of Israel which they believe was God ordained Himself. Pure hogwash and dangerous to boot given there are those who actually believe that before the Messiah returns a third world war has to happen?
Just because the bible prophecies something doesn’t mean that God wanted it that way! However, here’s the real sin of their interpretation for as you say the New Testament supersedes the Old Testament and guess what? What was written by Ezekiel in 38 and 39 is again prophesied with an addition in the Book of Revelation chapter 20. It is the same exact prophecy but for the Scofield/Dispensationalists they have unfortunately completely ignored this altogether. For them the Old supersedes the New!!!! Imagine that? Big, big mistake and believe me for demonizing 2 innocent nations Russia and Germany too many have innocent blood on their hands especially those in the years leading up to the 2nd World War. With the rise of communism and fascism too many well meaning Christians were fooled into believing something totally and completely wrong!
Now at this I if not we should be especially horrified because to see Bush talk about this prophecy to the French president is unbelievable and truly horrifying.

What was he really thinking that he was fulfilling bible prophecy himself by going into Iraq? Do you see the danger in this? I can’t imagine if there are those in politics who believe they have some special revelation and are bringing to pass through war God’s will and who benefits? The Jews!

The good news however, is there has been a change of sorts in the Church which is awakening to this truth. I’m also thankful for an author an unknown and new to the scene a Gerry Fox who has written and expounded upon this with a most amazing book World War 3, Gog & Magog, and Israel, lies all Lies. For any interested in the future I would highly recommend reading it especially in light of Putin’s recent remarks about leaving Russia alone. I have to wonder if he knows about this prophecy and the grave danger it is bringing upon the world? In any case I would suggest reading fox’s book. One can read portions of the book for free here:

Laurent Guyenot’s pagan occult assault on the Hebrew (“Old”) Testament is a familiar one. It privileges the “prisca theologia,” the alleged universal religion of the deep past against which the Bible is contrasted to ill effect, as Guyenot writes:

“The exclusive monotheism demanded by Yahweh is a degraded imitation of that inclusive monotheism toward which all the wisdoms of the ancient world converged by affirming the fundamental unity of all gods. As Egyptologist Jan Assmann emphasizes, the polytheisms of the great civilizations were cosmotheisms, insofar as the gods, among other functions, form the organic body of the world.”

Out of this syncretic “fundamental unity of all gods,” i.e. Pharaonic, Platonic, Hermetic system— the Judaic Kabbalah arose — a fact about which the author is, to use his own word, “pitifully” ignorant.

To exhibit his incomprehension further, he states:

“Christians claim that the Jews don’t read their Bible correctly, or that they got their Zionism from the Talmud or the Kabbalah. Both claims are pitiful attempts to exonerate the Old Testament from the Zionist catastrophe: the Hebrew Bible was written by Jews for the Jews, and I have never heard a Zionist quote the Talmud or the Kabbalah, whereas they quote the Bible every day.”

What exactly does the author know of Zionism? He ought to know that so-called “Israel” was founded by secular, atheist Socialists for whom the Torah was window-dressing and nothing more, a mere prop. He seems to take every word of their hasbara at face value. The majority of Talmudic Judaics were opposed to the founding of the Israeli state because it violates the dogma that such a state is to come into being by the Messiah himself. To bridge this yawning chasm, prior to 1948, a religious Zionist — the appropriately named Rabbi Kook (Abraham Isaac Kook)—concocted a Talmudic and Kabbalistic rationale for the Israeli state which today is the inspiration for the most murderous segment of Israeli society, the “settlers.”

For Mr. Guyenot to state that he has “never heard a Zionist quote the Talmud or the Kabbalah, whereas they quote the Bible every day,” probably tells us all we need to know about his knowledge of the subject matter. Zionists quote the Bible because they dare not cite the Talmud lest they reveal the true stature of their holiest book, which is the Babylonian Talmud (the oral Torah — “Torah she beal peh”), not the written Torah of Moses, which it contradicts and nullifies.

The author writes further: “Inevitably, Jewish nationalism, or patriotic love for Israel, resonates with the destiny of Israel as outlined in the Bible: Yahweh your God will raise you higher than every other nation in the world.”

He seems to overlook the fact that a little something known as Christendom, the religious, social and cultural behemoth that coalesced Europe into the powerhouse that first emerged in the early Middle Ages, rejected the rabbinic claims to an Old Testament mandate over humanity. Those Christians had studied something which Guyenot apparently discounts: the New Testament, and in particular Revelation 2:9: “I know them that say they are Jews and are not, but are of the Synagogue of Satan.”

Counterfeit Jews are those who reject Jesus Christ. They constitute not the Synagogue of the Hebrew Old Testament, but that of Satan. They have no legitimate claim on Palestine or any other land on earth.This was the Christian dogma for nineteen hundred years and remains so among authentic Christians.

The hypothesis advanced by Mr. Guyenot is nothing less than an attack on Jesus Christ, make no mistake about that. Jesus quoted the Old Testament approvingly hundreds of times. He employed it for prophetic, admonitory and pedagogical purposes. There is no true Christianity without the Bible, both Hebrew and Greek Testaments.

[Michael Hoffman is the author of “Judaism Discovered” and “The Occult Renaissance Church of Rome”].

Mr. Hoffman, thanks for addressing and making explicit, as it happens to be, my own inchoate uneasiness with this article. I would like to pass on to a question that has been bothering me about the topic of the “coming true Messiah” for those who are anti-Christians–a simple little question that even a child can understand which relates to your claim, “The majority of Talmudic Judaics were opposed to the founding of the Israeli state because it violates the dogma that such a state is to come into being by the Messiah himself.”

Namely, as I understand it, the Messiah is supposed to be able to trace his lineage back to David. Since the claim is made that all the geneological records of the Israelites were destroyed in 70 AD (or is that 70 CE, to be politically correct in effacing all traces of reference to Jesus?), how can the future “true Messiah” establish his claim? This is no idle question because certain scholars of a pharasitical persuasion, claim that Jesus’ claim to be the Messiah is invalidated by tracing his lineage back from Joseph, the spouse of Mary–invalidated because clearly Joseph is not His biological father. What is sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander.

Rejection of the OT by pseudo-Christians is a subtle form of rejection of the Christ incarnate (Gnosticism) on a par with the Jewish rejection of the Incarnation, however much people believe that they combat ‘Judaism’ or ‘Zionism’ or ‘the banksters’ by doing so. In reality they reject Christianity pretending that it is the same as Judaism.

The OT is a witness for the Christ! He said: “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me”. “O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: 26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? 27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.”
The Christ was announced by all prophets of the OT as well as by Saint John the Baptist: “There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. 8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light”.
The Christ was not the only witness to himself like Mahomed!

This article goes straight to the center of the storm that is raging our planet. The crazies ruling the west are into the most primitive and barbaric viewpoints of the Old Testament. It is destroying our planet faster than Climate Change. The concept of “seven nations to destroy” for the 911 US/Israel/UK false flag comes from Deut. 7:1-2. Only three nations are left to destroy – Lebanon, Syria and Iran. All three are in radar by our OT west empire. Syria has a double whammy. Another barbaric passage is often dug up, Isaiah 17: 1-2 says Damascus to be in ruins. It has been in ruins many times before. So why must it be in ruins again?

Bonten, I’ll answer your question: Because if we get drawn into any conflict we will have to lift ourselves from ruins, for which we will have to borrow money and fill the parasite’s pockets. This is why Putin is resisting falling into this trap at all costs. Russia and most of European people know what it means (at least the older generations, the ones who had to wade through ruins to go to school, or the ones who had to sift through looking for their families).

Faith is not blind!!! All of the nations of the Old Testament were not a people like us thinking and believing that faith is blind so to speak. They knew beyond a doubt that God existed:

See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven? At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.” The words “once more” indicate the removing of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.
Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our “God is a consuming fire.” (Hebrews 12:25–29)

To reject a God and King when one is fully cognizant of His existence is a very dangerous and grievous matter. In those days, believing in God wasn’t a blind belief idea like it is today, replaced as He is with science. Too many people and nations, however, made the grave mistake of idolatry and that’s a most hated thing before the true God. An example is Egypt with her pyramids dedicated to a sun god, and reducing the divine being in the eyes of people to animals. Then the Pharaohs glorified themselves into deities. They prepared themselves accordingly for the afterlife, to the detriment of their own people, who they treated as little more than slaves for their building programs. They even came up with sexual acts to try and bring forth the divine. Lastly, and horrifyingly, some nations went so far as child sacrifice in the belief that their idols needed to be appeased.
Is it any wonder then that God made an example of the nations? They were involved in blatant, in-your-face sin and disobedience, and it polluted the land terribly. Israel, however, was chosen to be different, and not because they were any different than anyone else but rather because of their father Abraham, who along with Isaac and Jacob was faithful, knew God, and lived according to His ways and laws—or at least he tried to. God desired for these men’s progeny to be an example to the rest of the world of what a holy and righteous people look like, and to teach all the other nations to be likeminded. His promises to them were (and are) extraordinary. One promise was especially important, given its relation to the weather and this RIGHT HERE BRINGS US TO OUR CURRENT WEATHER PREDICAMENTS CALLED CLIMATE CHANGE. Do you know that practically every single book of the Old Testament and a number of the New speaks about Divine Communication by way of climate change/global warming. It is the book of Job however, that truly lays the foundation to understanding it completely. ie:

Job 37:5-13. “He brings the clouds to punish men. or to water His earth and show His love.”

If the bible however, is to difficult and boring a read may I suggest the one ebook that truly gives a thorough understanding of climate change bar none.

Climate Change the Work of God by a Gerry Fox.

Mindblowing, truly mindblowing.

He has another book to about Russia and the prophecy of Ezekiel 38 and 39 which completely destroys the idea that has been put forth by the Christian Zionists that Gog and Magog refers to Russia and Germany. It is a must read for any wanting to understand current prophecy teachings. Actually, one of the biggest concerns for me and perhaps us all is the Christian Zionists and there horrendous interpretation of scripture from Ezekiel 38 and 38 about Gog and Magog being the nations of Russia and Germany which is supposed to attack Israel in some near future. This is such unbelievable hogwash that it needs to be thrown immediately into the garbage can. It is hard to imagine that there are those who actually believe this war has to occur before the Messiah returns? Too many Christians I fear I have innocent blood on their hands for demonizing 2 nations that have nothing whatsoever to do with biblical prophecy or Israel. Leave Russia alone!!!!!!!!!

Furthermore, as far as war goes take and consider very seriously these words:

“The Lord will cause men to hear his majestic voice and will make them see his arm coming down with raging anger and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail.” {Isaiah 30:30}

“Rain will come in torrents, and I will send hailstones hurtling down and violent winds will burst forth… In my wrath I will unleash a violent wind, and in my anger hailstones and torrents of rain will fall with destructive fury.” {Ezekiel 13: 8-13}

AND WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!

BECAUSE OF THIS OF COURSE….

CENTRAL IRAQ – “Neither hail, sandstorm, pestilence nor rugged terrain can halt the slow, inexorable advance of U.S. forces toward Baghdad.
A tempest of biblical proportions swept across the Mesopotamian plain Tuesday, cutting visibility first to 40 to 50 metres, then to as little as one or two meters.
The storm sprang out of nowhere after a pleasant start to the day.
At the height of the tempest, the wind was so strong no one could go outside our light armored vehicle {LAV}. It was also so dark, the sun could not be seen. Everything was bathed in an odd orange glow.
Inside our vehicle, we felt almost as if we were in a small boat, as the heavy gusts of wind shook the 14 tonne LAV.
Six of us were crammed inside, along with extra ammunition, personal belongings, military equipment, radios and communications gear.
After several hours, the wind subsided, then the sandstorm became a hailstorm, with thunder and lightning, which turned the desert floor into a silky mud almost bogging down the eight-wheel drive vehicles.
A small pool of water, a little lake almost, quickly formed behind our vehicle.
We had to move to avoid getting swamped.”
{The Vancouver Sun, Wednesday, March 26, 2003 pg. A4}

Never in a million years did I think that I would open a newspaper and witness the work of God like this! America made the biggest mistake of their lives going into Iraq and Jesus showed up in response to the mothers of Iraq who were screaming at the top of their lungs that first there were no terrorists in Iraq and who should know but the mothers of Iraq and then to God to help them. Imagine Jesus showed up on the battlefield but sadly because of the utter lack of knowledge of the bible Bravo Company continued on their course of action? I figure big mistake and now they have a nor-easter barreling through their capital? Wow! What’s next I figure is the next big question yes?

Yeah, and well there was also in the news surrounding this event a citizen of Baghdad who upon witnessing this unusual storm, was seen and heard yelling in the streets of Baghdad something to the effect of ‘hey look at what God is doing to the American forces.’ He apparently could see what many could not or chose not to a matter of which was due more to his acclimatization to that particular environment than to any teachings from the koran if that is there is anything in that book which speaks about climate change as a form of Divine Communication. I mean who really gets to witness a thunder hailstorm directly over an army in a desert setting 25 miles from a city? In any case as far as the Middle East is concerned there are numerous youtube videos that show something very unusual going on with the weather in that region of the world. Reminds me of something Fox quotes science as saying in his book “that they don’t understand certain abrupt meteorological events that pop up now and then.”
Wow, plenty of that going on these days yes?
It also reminds me of another illustration from Boston. While watching an evening television newscast there was this report about a terrible and terrifying thunderstorm with accompanying hail that had descended in quite abruptly over the city of Boston. A weather system that apparently had been so severe that it resulted in spectators who while watching some game in the cities stadium caused them to run in fear for their lives. They actually scattered out of the stadium in droves. It was an event that so totally shocked the lady news reporter reporting it that she had this flabbergasted look of disbelief on her face which in turn left me wondering and questioning if this was an act of God, why? I then woke up three days later to the news of the World Trade Towers being destroyed? A coincidence? Raises numerous questions does it not?

God is not an absentee landlord and scripture makes this abundantly clear. Lastly take a gander at this scripture from Job:

“Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail, which I reserve for times of trouble, for days of war and battle?”{Job 38:22}

Putin for all his talk about the nuclear there is no better punishment upon a nation or world than the weather and look we find a scripture in the bible that describes God’s own use and ownership of it!!!!!!! A matter of which horrifyingly mankind is trying to manipulate themselves. Mankind I fear is headed for a terrible clash with the eternal Creator Himself.
I find myself turning more and more to Mathew 24 and 25? and so have we arrived Anonymous?

Laurent, I really appreciate your insights pertaining to this most important issue. It takes either an extreme amount of study, or spiritual insight to understand this. In either case, one must be seeking the highest truth in order to ever have a chance at discovering and thus knowing it.

Mankind, as physical beings on earth, are primarily ego oriented, that being their actual secondary nature, as opposed to (often literally) their primary or spiritual nature.

It is the ego that sees the world as dualistic (+/-) in nature and thus seeks to be as close to the (+) (best etc.) as he can, or at least to the degree that he can convince himself, and others, that he is. But such men know that deep down they can never match the definition of “perfect” as is so commonly expressed in normal parlance, that of course being a dualistic definition. The more egoistic the person the closer to that meaning does he prefer to believe himself to be.

It being then the most egotistical of men that would claim their personal relationship to GOD, God or gods, as being the preferred one, if not the only one. Such it seems has been the case of the founders of the Jewish Religion.

The real truth of a UNIversal nature concerning GOD (rather than God(s) and gods) is that Trinitarianism is the makeup of everything, dualism being but a misunderstanding of that truth so often used by those who have yet to mature into spiritual truths.

Where Dualism (+/-) is a matter of “best/worst”, life over death, winner over loser, survivor over the killed, a rather simple matter of “separation” between polar extremes placing little value in the “middle ground” realm of central balance points where the “differentiations” are much less extreme. The area where compassion, cooperation, and acceptance of differences works for the greater good of all. All, being the a most important concept because it excludes none, not even nothing. Everything has it’s rightful place in the UNIversal ALL, the (=-) of Trinity!

Such Trinity is what I call the Basic Equation of Truth, the BET as (+=-)! There are other definitions of Trinity but if they do not consist of the BET then they are falling short of the highest Truth.

In my understanding of the BET (+=-), it can be expressed as GOD being the all-inclusive ( ), within which (+) would be God, (=) would be the Spirit of God (AKA our personal Soul experienced as our Intuition), while the (-) would represent the vastness of “everything else” … most especially our concept of egoic physicality on the more personal level of worldly existence.

Within the concept of the BET (+=-) the higher truth of the Christian Trinity finds it’s place and fit. It being but the machinations of ego that have defiled it into the lesser understandings (misc-understandings) that continue to cause so many problems in this world. But never mind, because the real Perfection allows even the myriad perfections as well as the countless imperfections that make it all up. everything is as it should be in that with experience everyone has the chance to grow towards the higher perfections under the banner of Perfection (+=-) ItSelf. Karma dictates the Justice of it all in ALL.

The neo drudic symbol of the Awen with 3 rings surrounding 3 rays of light descending from 3 points I find very engaging…and as a pictorial way of understanding….https://bookofdruidry.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/awen/
another bardic symbol is a point with 2 circles encircling God at the centre…us…universe etc….still a trinity of “identities” but overlapping and inclusive and comprehensive but allowing acknowledging the huge infinite expanse of unknowing at any level of development of being…consciousness awareness etc etc

The reality of most Jewish people though is that they do not have a deep understanding of the religious texts nor the history of Judaism in much detail if at all. Therefore for most Jews the idea of Judaism is more about a tribal bond based upon a shared history of victimization, rather than an explicitly religious idea as mentioned in the above essay. If asked I am sure most Jews today would see Judaism as being about a universal God to one degree or another and have little to no understanding of the minutiae involved in the history of Judaic thought.

On a different note, did you know that among western converts to eastern religion or philosophy that it is the Jews who are far more likely to do so than others? If you check out the people in the various Hindu yoga traditions, or the variety of Buddhist traditions coming from a western birth–Jews are far over represented in relation to others. I know this from first hand experience and it is a well documented reality written about by scholars. So it is ironic that the faux-universalism of actual Judaism has led to so many Jews becoming followers of ancient universalist traditions from India, so such a degree that Jews dominate those groups, sects, or whatever you want to call them, that currently exist in the western world. Go to any of the major western oriented Hindu yoga or Buddhist organizations (as opposed to the more ethnic based ones) and you will see lots of Jews among the leadership and the common membership as well.

On another note, it is commonly understood that the universalist strain of Judaism came from the Zoroastrian concepts of the Persians (Cyrus et al.) who freed the Jews from captivity and then sent them Ezra to create a new form of Judaism. Zoroastrian universalist thought itself was influenced from the earlier Sanskrit language texts of the Vedas (Upanishads, etc.). The Vedas taught arguable the earliest universalist form of religion still being practiced today and can be summed up in these three sutras from the Bhagavata Purana 11.28.6-8, here we see a very concise formulation of the philosophy of the Upanishads (Vedas) in just a few sentences (my translation):

“In the universe a single all-pervasive infinite being is both the creator and the creation. The soul of the universe is the savior and the protector, as well as the giver or taker of ability in all. In truth no being or occurrence can be viewed as different or distinct from that ruling controller over all manifestations in existence.

Therefore the vision of creating, maintaining or destroying by your own will is baseless. Know that the apparent reality of people and the natural world is an illusion.

The learned and wise who perfectly understand and realize this knowledge do not engage in blame or praise, they move like the sun.”

in which he shows his viewers a film clip of the ADL/University of California demonstrating the power of AI in its pursuit of online hate detection.

I mention this in juxtaposition with a link posted by Littlejohn on the Saker – to follow – in which a young and destitute Palestinian is trapped by online Israeli exploiters- got caught and convicted for “terrorism”and spent 12 years in jail.

We all find ourselves caught between the earthly rock and the hard place. Our Lord gives us The Way Through.

I think IMHO it is better to call them “expert systems”, or sophisticated data analysis machines, because they decide about external entities and binaries relationships. AIs should be truly intelligent if capable to completely get out from themselves and to reason recursively upon the whole system of themselves, from higher points of view. Like the human brain is capable to… because his parallel multi-dimensionality is not only about changing coordinates system when slice-and-dice a knowledge base, but also about changing himself as a whole as consequence of mutations of learning paradigms. And all of this (luckily) without goes halted on “memory overflow” or “divide by Zero error”.

When computers will understand whether my orders are serious or facetious (the “joke test”) then I think we will have AIs.

Prisoneer#6
I completely agree with you on the limitations of A1.
My point, however, which is perhaps difficult to ‘see’ due to the dislocation of my posts/links, is that Zionists can do whatever they like, when and where they choose.

So in my little example, the Zionists are setting up an on-line “hate” detector and the Zionists are at the same time impersonating ‘other’ than what they truly are, in order to trap innocents into committing crimes.

Deuteronomy 15:6 – thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee. Deuteronomy 28:10 – And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the lord; and they shall be afraid of thee. Deuteronomy 28:12 – and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. Deuteronomy 28:13 – And the lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath. Job 12:6 – The tabernacle of robbers prosper. Psalm 18:43 – and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I had not known shall serve me. Psalm 18:43 – As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me. Proverbs 22:7 – The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. Isaiah 5:26 – And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will HISS (serpent) unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly. Isaiah 43:10 – before me there was no god formed (created), neither shall there be after me. Mark 3:27 – No man can enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil (steal) his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then will spoil (steal) his house.
These are your masters. It is all fake and fantasy. Imagine 7 billion people all running on their hamster wheels for a fake fantasy. Bow to them, beg them for food, submit to their every desire. As the merchants destroy the planet we will soon be forced to pay to breath. And if you do not obey, the masters of Rome will beat you into submission with their fasces. How much longer must reality suffer at the hands of unicorn fantasy??? What freedom???

Your analysis is deeply flawed because you wrongly insist that today’s “Jews” are the people of the Bible. In so doing, you err not only in a tortured parody of the various biblical covenants, but also in conflating Israel and the Synagogue of Satan. http://judaism.is/covenants.html You are also oblivious to the Protestant roots, a “photo-Zionism,” that was later adopted into Judaism even though the nineteenth century rabbis were nearly unanimously opposed to Zionism. http://judaism.is/christian-zionism.html

The rabbis freely stipulate against your premise, a common mistake. Among many: “This is not an uncommon impression and one finds it sometimes among Jews as well as Christians – that Judaism is the religion of the Hebrew Bible. It is, of course, a fallacious impression. Judaism is not the religion of the Bible.”
Rabbi Ben Zion Bokser, Judaism and the Christian Predicament, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967, p.59, 159

In fact, Judaism today is, as the rabbis again freely stipulate, a continuation of the Phariseeism that, both Jesus (Mark 7:8-9) and the rabbis agree, set itself apart from and superior to the Written Torah (Old Testament). Several proof texts here: http://judaism.is/torah.html#megalomania

Whether or not you take the same flawed exegetical route as “Christian” Zionists (http://judaism.is/christian-zionism.html), you arrive as the same errant destination, namely, conflation of Israel and the Synagogue of Satan (Apocalypse 3:9).

Though Zionists have gulled many by using the Bible as cover when the audience consists of “Bible Believers,” Zionism is no biblical project except in this sense—Zionism is a project of the Synagogue of Satan. You should know that from Zionism’s fruits.

I missed this piece somehow when it first appeared and only caught up due to a link in a later piece.
Thank you Mr Guyénot for a very interesting and thought provoking article. The past really does live on and influence both the present and future.

Makes me think of this, from an old, non specialist thinker, that has stood the test of time:

“The State of Israel and the Diaspora, in fruitful dialogue, can show how a People transcends nationalism while affirming it, thus establishing an example for humanity.”

A rather silly statement on the part of US Reform Judaism, considering that this applies equally to every other country and its diaspora. The usual histrionic spin too> thus establishing an example for humanity.

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